Or do they? Today, our government made a longterm plan for living alongside covid. Its a six month plan.
Basically, there are now 5 levels of restriction here in ireland. With 1 being the least restrictive, and 5 being the most restrictive.
All of ireland is currently on level 2. But Dublin may be going to level 3 if the case numbers keep rising there. Today we had 3 more deaths and over 300 new cases. Small numbers compared to some countries I know, but remember, Ireland only has a population of 4.5 million, so the numbers are pretty alarming for us, and each day in the last week or two we’ve had over 200 positive cases.
But heres the thing, the pubs that dont serve food are being allowed to reopen, as of next week, next Monday. Pubs that serve food have been open here now for a few weeks already.
I just hope we dont go back to where we were in april and may, I couldnt cope with another lockdown. I’d go insane. In Cork where I live, we arent doing too bad, the cases are low, which is a positive thing.
Also we can only have gatherings of six people from 3 households together indoors, and outdoors you can have more, with social distancing in place.
Funerals can have up to fifty people at them. Weddings can have up to 100 but its an exception to the rules, and is allowed under the new plan.
This plan goes until next April. Its a very different world we’re living in now, isnt it? Our new normal.
Businesses have to reopen or everything will close for good and then what
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I know, it’s a Catch-22 really, things have to reopen or there will be no economy I know that 💕
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Life needs to continue if masks work so well then we can all wear a mask. No need for this crap to continue
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Yeah, masks seem to be working so maybe its best if we all keep wearing them
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Well if they work so damn great as they say no reason we can’t open the economy
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True, if people would just remember to wear them and stop saying why they don’t have to wear them 🤣☮️
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The economy needs to reopen either way
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Yep 😀 it does!
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At least your government has a plan. Ours just bumbles along and hopes it can wing it. And Brexit too. 🤭🙋♀️🐝
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LOL I know, the UK is a bit of a farce, it’s just bumbling along as if they have nothing to worry about 😜🙂
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Sometimes I can cope well with the new normal but sometimes I do struggle. I think it’s hopeful that the government is thinking a bit long term, so you know a bit where you are. In my country it’s every month that they seem to change things. 🙄
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It’s the same here every month it’s something different something new, it is hard to cope with the new normal 🤗
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It’s a very different and difficult world for sure! I know in the United States… in some of the States… as more testing became available our numbers went up to at first. But our death toll was going down and now our hospitals are basically empty, no matter what a celebrity tells you and no one is at the testing sites anymore. It’s hard to believe but we are overcoming this tough time! It’ll be a beautiful day when the world is Covid free again!
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I agree, I can’t wait for that day 🙂
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I hope there won’t be another lockdown here as well. It was terrible and so scary.
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I know, it was awful 😃💕
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